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Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee defended himself Tuesday against accusations from liberal bloggers that he has been “bashing America” during his ongoing visit to Israel.

“Don’t minimize the idea that some in the left wing of the press are capable of completely making something up,” Huckabee said in a post on the website of his political action committee.

“Some of the headlines from my visit to Israel have screamed ‘Huckabee bashes America in Israel.’ That is not just inaccurate — it is a purposed lie,” he wrote, referring to reports that he told Israeli reporters that some in the United States have taken too harsh a stance against the country. “I have extolled the virtues of the USA at every stop and in every comment, but have stated a position that I have stated for many years — during both Republican and Democratic administrations — that Jerusalem should be a united city.”

“I have not bashed America! I haven’t even bashed Obama’s anti-Israel and promise breaking policy, and I have certainly had the opportunity,” he continued. “I have expressed my view consistently wherever I am and don't say different things depending on who I am talking to.”

Huckabee’s response pointed directly to a post by Salon’s Glenn Greenwald, who wrote Monday that the former governor “is now bashing America in front of a foreign audience.”

Greenwald directed readers to a story in the Jerusalem Post quoting Huckabee as saying: “It concerns me when there are some in the United States who would want to tell Israel that it cannot allow people to live in their own country, wherever they want.”

The Salon blogger argued that since some Democrats have been attacked by Republicans in the past for speaking negatively about the country while abroad, Huckabee should be subjected to the same.

The liberal blogger later updated the post to insist that he was “not criticizing Mike Huckabee for speaking ill of American policy while in a foreign country. I’m not one who embraces the dictate that it's sinful to criticize the U.S. government unless one is standing squarely within America's borders.”

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee defended himself Tuesday against accusations from liberal bloggers that he has been “bashing America” during his ongoing visit to Israel.

“Don’t minimize the idea that some in the left wing of the press are capable of completely making something up,” Huckabee said in a post on the website of his political action committee.

Politico - time to clue in - an American politician going to another country and attacking American policy is perfectly acceptable as long as the politican doing the attacking is a Republican. It's only when Democrats say anything that might even be remotely construed as criticism does the "politics stop at the water's edge" come into effect.

Huck would never bash America, except when the Democrats are in charge.

Other than that, when that flag goes up the pole, he goes right up there with it.

And I like Huck personally. He is not a slimy character like Palin or Gingrich and can usually be mellow when he disagrees with someone. I have no doubt that he is as since is his convictions as I am on the Left-wing side, but I don't agree with most of what he says.

anti-israel? why does anyone listen to people who actually believe that israel was given that land by god? i hereby claim north america for myself. god gave it to me. don't believe me? why not? i have as much proof as everyone else who claims god gave them something. my declaration.

There is no way Huckabee would bash America. This is another attack from the libbies than means nothing. Any one who has ever listened to him knows better. Huckabee does not like Obummas policies against Israel. Huckabee says what he thinks, he is honest.

I PROMISE YOU..SALON AND IT'S ANTI-BLACK REPORTERS SUPPORT THESE "RELIGIOUS LEADERS" AND THEIR "CAUSE" WHILE GOV. HUCKABEE..A BABTIST MINISTER..FIGHTS FOR POOR BLACK CITIZENS TO GET AND HOLD JOBS EVERYDAY. I AM SO SICK OF THE FAR LEFT DEMONIZING EVERY DECENT PERSON IN THE USA..AND WHILE THEY ARE ONLY 9% OF THE AMERICAN PUBLIC..STRONGLY LIBERAL..THEY CONTROL 99% OF THE PRESS. DITTO THE WHITE HOUSE. AND I AM TIRED OF THE BIAS AGAINST POOR BLACK WORKERS FROM THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY..INCLUDING THE PRESIDENT OF THE USA..HALF BLACK.ONLY...PRESIDENT OBAMA.

The news from Raeford, N.C. is so encouraging. Immigration enforcement against illegal foreign workers is leading to hundreds of unemployed Black Americans getting jobs and transforming their lives. but that is a bad -- even evil -- thing, according to religious leaders like the ones scheduled to go to the White House on Thursday to help decide how to pass an amnesty for illegal aliens this next year.

I don't really think these religious leaders hate the Black American underclass. But they have abandoned it.

RELIGIOUS LEADERS COLLUDING WITH BIG BUSINESS LOBBYISTS

The Associated Press is reporting that religious leaders are joining with business leaders at the White House on Thursday to help plan how to persuade the public to go along with an amnesty for illegal aliens.is it just me or does it seem a little icky to have major religious leaders colluding with the big business lobby to ensure a continued supply of cheap foreign labor that will also help keep Americans' wages lower? although I don't yet know the identity of these religious leaders, I can be pretty sure that none of them takes the side of business on other issues. It's just that they have such a preference for immigration over all other values that they are willing to regard business lobbyists as their allies.

HERE ARE THE PEOPLE THE RELIGIOUS LEADERS WANT TO STOP HELPING

Franco Ordonez of the Charlotte Observer is giving us a birds-eye view of who benefits when, instead of rewarding illegal immigration, we enforce the laws against it. http://www.charlotteobserver.c... (BLACK CAUCUS..AND PRESIDENT OBAMA......PLEASE READ. PLEASE. WHO BROUGHT YOU TO THE BIG DANCE?)

House of Raeford, one of the nation's top chicken and turkey producers, appears to be transforming its workforce amid a court fight over federal charges that a subsidiary knowingly hired illegal immigrants.Current and former workers at the company's main plant in Raeford say the firm stopped hiring immigrants in recent months and let hundreds more go for using fake documents.Once more than 80 percent Latino, the production floor at the Raeford plant is now up to 70 percent African American, workers said. “Before there were hardly any African Americans,” said Rashida Grace, 19, a line worker who has been at the plant over a year.

In my book, THE CASE AGAINST IMMIGRATION, I write at some length about the way lax immigration enforcement led to the replacement of native-born U.S. workers during the 1980s and 1990s throughout the poultry-processing industry. Until then, about half the workers were white and half were black. what I found was that most of the U.S. workers who were displaced by the foreign workers were not able to find other full-time jobs in their primarily rural settings. Their incomes dropped sharply and their dependence on government services rose.i cited many studies that had found the change of the poultry industry to a primarily foreign workforce had lowered real wages.

The re-opening of poultry jobs to U.S.-born workers in rural communities would be a tremendous boon to the severely-underemployed populations that live there. Again in the case of Raeford, the underemployed community is primarily Black. Thus, Black Americans are reaping the benefits of one of the few places where the federal government has put the pressure on a business to obey the law.

House of Raeford, a family-run business, has operations in the Carolinas and Louisiana, 6,000 employees and nearly $600 million in annual sales. Isabel Hernandez said she was fired on April 21 for working with fake documents. Hernandez and others described what she saw as an organized effort to push illegal immigrants out of the plant – a few at a time – so as not to draw much attention or disrupt operations. “It was very regular,” said Hernandez, who worked under another name. “Every seven days they'd let a few go.” Raeford Mayor John McNeill said he was unaware of changes in the workforce, but welcomed them if it meant more jobs for Raeford citizens. “If that's happening, that's good,” he said. “With our unemployment numbers, we need local jobs.”

Lamar McCoy, 25, called the changes long overdue. He said several friends and relatives have gotten jobs recently at the plant, including his brother. “It's been good for the town, especially black minorities,” said McCoy, who worked at the plant about nine months until this summer. “There are lots of poor black men with not many opportunities…. In a small town like Raeford, there are not many jobs.”

Every gain by those Black citizens of Raeford is opposed by the type of religious leaders heading to the Whtie House.

National leaders of the United Methodists, Lutherans, Unitarian-Universalists, Catholics and Jews routinely decry immigration enforcement as racist, inhumane and against their holy scriptures. According to them, those Black citizens of Raeford have no right to take jobs at the expense of foreign citizens who have broken immigration laws to get them. According to these national religious leaders, the 8 million illegal aliens currently holding a job should be given permanent right to those jobs. With unemployment rates among Black less-educated Americans soaring through the roof, any amnesty and any decrease in immigration enforcement is disproportionately harmful to Black Americans. I am sure these national religious leaders are not intentionally racist. But, really, is there anybody in America whose actions are more anti-Black in their consequences?"(numbersusa)